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Waardenburg’s syndrome

wage compression

Wainwright v. Witt

waist-to-hips ratio

wait-list control group

waiting-list phenomenon

wake-promoting agent

waking hypnosis

Wald–Wolfowitz test

walk-through performance testing (WTPT)

Wallerian degeneration

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)

wandering attention

warm-blooded animal

warning coloration

warning overload

Warrington Recognition Memory Test

wash-out period

Wason selection task

water on the brain

water regulation

water-jug problem

waterfall illusion

watershed infarction

Watson–Glaser critical thinking appraisal

wave of excitation

wave-interference patterns

wavelength thresholds

waxy flexibility

Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WAYS)

weak central coherence

weak law of effect

weak law of large numbers

weaning aggression

weapon-focus effect

wear-and-tear theory of aging

Weber–Fechner law

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)

Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)

Wednesday Evening Society

weekend alcoholic

weekend hospitalization

weight discrimination

weight regulation

Weight Watchers

weight-loss surgery

weighted application blank (WAB)

weighted average

weighted multidimensional scaling

well-child care

wellness coaching

wellness program

Welsh Figure Preference Test (WFPT)

Werdnig–Hoffmann disease

Werner syndrome

Wernicke–Geschwind model

Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome

Wernicke’s aphasia

Wernicke’s area

Wernicke’s encephalopathy

Werther syndrome

Wessex Head Injury Matrix (WHIM)

Westermarck effect

Western Aphasia Battery (WAB)

wet-globe bulb temperature

Wever–Bray effect

wheelchair sport

Whipple’s disease

whirl sensation

white blood cell

white commissure

white rami communicantes

white-collar crime

white-collar worker

Whitehall studies

whiteness constancy

whiteout syndrome

WHO (10) Well-Being Index

whole medical system

whole method of learning

whole object assumption

whole-interval recording

whole-language approach

whole-word method

Whorfian hypothesis

Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT)

wide-range test

Widow-to-Widow Program

Wiedemann syndrome

wihtigo (wihtiko)

Wilcoxon rank-sum test

Wilcoxon signed-ranks test

Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test

wild boy of Aveyron

wilderness experience

Wildervanck syndrome

Wilks’s lambda

will disturbance

will psychology

will to meaning

will to survive

will-do factors

Wille zur Macht

Williams syndrome (Williams–Barratt syndrome; Williams–Beuren syndrome)

Williams v. Florida

Willie M. class action

Willowbrook Consent Judgment

win–lose dynamic

win–stay, lose–shift strategy

windigo psychosis

windmill illusion

Winsorized mean

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)

Wisconsin General Test Apparatus (WGTA)

wisdom of crowds

wish fulfillment

wishful thinking

withdrawal design

withdrawal dyskinesia

withdrawal reflex

withdrawal-destructiveness

withdrawing response

withdrawn-rejected child

Witherspoon excludables

within-dimension attitude consistency

within-groups design

within-groups variance

within-subjects analysis of variance

within-subjects design

within-subjects factor

within-subjects variance

witigo (witiko; wittigo)

Wittmaack–Ekbom syndrome

Wohlwill–Corino Andrade syndrome

Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome

Wolman’s disease

woman-centered psychology

women’s liberation movement (WLM)

Women’s Sexual Interest Diagnostic Interview (WSID)

Woodcock–Johnson Psychoeducational Battery

word approximation

word fluency (WF)

word-association test

word-form dyslexia

word-fragment completion task

word-frequency study

word-length effect

word-recognition skills

word-recognition threshold

word-stem completion

word-superiority effect (WSE)

word–gustatory synesthesia

work evaluation

work motivation

work psychology

work rehabilitation center

work satisfaction

work-for-pay unit

work-limit test

work-sample test

work-study program

work–life balance

work–rest cycle

workflow integration

working backward

working forward

working hypothesis

working knowledge

Working Memory Index

working memory training

working self-concept

working through

working vocabulary

workplace violence

workspace design

World Federation for Mental Health

World Health Organization (WHO)

worse-than-average effect

wraparound services

writer’s block

writer’s cramp

writing disorder

wrong number technique

Würzburg school

Wyatt v. Stickney decision

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